15 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



the costa is arched at its extremity, and the tip of the wing 

 pointed ; the hind margin is moderately obhque, and very 

 shghtly concave below the tip. The body and fore-wings are 

 banded with green and rosy. The larvae are green or brown, 

 with a short horn. 



Several closely-allied species are found in Europe and 

 Northern and Western Asia, as far as Japan. 



In my " Synonymic Catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera " 

 I retained Hiibner's name TJieretra for the magazine genus 

 Charocanipa. In the present work, however, I have decided 

 to separate the species noticed under the generic names 

 belonging to them, and am glad to be able to restore the 

 name of Chmrocauipa to the type of that genus. 



THE ELEPHANT HAWK-MOTH. CH(JiROCA^IPA ELPENOR. 

 {Plate XCVIIL, Fig. I.) 



Spliifix elpenor^ Linm^us, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 491, no. 15 

 (1758) ; id., Faun. Suec. p. 28S (1761); id., Mus. Ludov. 

 Ulricas, p. 355 (1764); Esper, Eur. Schmett., ii., p. 91, 

 Taf. 9 (1779)^ P- 200, taf. 27, fig. 3 (1782), ii. (2), p. ^i, 

 Taf. 45, fig. I (1801 ?) ; Hiibner, Eur. Schmett. ii. fig. 61 

 (1803 ?) ; Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii., p. 209 

 (1808). 



DcilepJiila elpenor, Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. Haust., i., p. 131 

 (1828). 



Chcvrocauipa elpc/ior, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 72, 

 pi. 16, fig. 3, a-c (1879); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid., 

 ii., p. 113, pi. 25, fig. 3 (1887); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. IsL, 

 ii., p. 59, pi. 52, figs. I, la-ic (1S93). 



This moth is widely distributed over Europe and Northern 

 and Western Asia. It expands about two and a half inches. 



